Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations? 

We’re offering free 1:1 sessions in person for artists who live and/or work in Fenland and surrounding areas. 

Hosted by Viviana Checchia, our Director of Metal Peterborough, and Creative Fenland. These sessions will be led by you and what you would like to discuss, which might include: 

• Discussing your creative practice 

• Talking through a project idea 

• Advice or sign posting to different funding routes or opportunities 

• Building relationships with different organisations, voluntary groups, partners or venues 

• Budget development or reading draft applications 

There is one session available per artist and the slots are 1 hour long.

Sessions are free and will be open on a first come first served basis (to those who live and/or work in the local area). To ensure we can support as many artists and creatives as possible, anyone who has previously booked a slot with us won’t be eligible this time. 

Follow this link to book your slot: https://bit.ly/4x1Q4dh

Who is the offer for?
Our team will share their experience and backgrounds with the disclaimer that that some things brought into the Open Advice Sessions might be outside of our expertise. In this instance, we will try our best to help in the session.

What you share with us in the session will stay in the meeting. We will not share your ideas outside of the session space 

About the Peterborough team: 

In Peterborough, our team have a background working in community roles, artist spaces or as practicing artists. We have experience developing and delivering participatory projects with artists, organisations and local communities, as well as developing activities with young people and arts for health and wellbeing. We’ve supported artists in a wide range of creative disciplines, including artists who are in the early stages of their career and have a vast knowledge of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Fenland. We have experience in supporting artists with their funding applications including Arts Council England.  

About Creative Fenland: 

“Creative Fenland, Karen Alivez & Alan Seiglow, are two artists based at the REMO Eco Hub in March. They are passionate about supporting artists, writers, and makers through events, networking opportunities and creative development activity. They also run workshops and creative activities for the wider Fenland community.  The space aims to provide an accessible, welcoming environment for creativity, conversation and community connection across Fenland. REMO Eco Hub is a sustainability-focused community space that brings together local organisations, creative activity and community support within the town centre of March, Fenland.”  

Creative Fenland has been awarded funding from Cambridge Community Foundation and the University of Cambridge to continue its work in Fenland. Following the decision to close Cambridge Community Arts, projects will be hosted by Support Cambridgeshire which will work in partnership with 20Twenty Productions to continue a provision of arts activities in Fenland, with artists & creative producers: Karen Avilez and Alan Seiglow. 

“We strongly believe that everyone within our community has the right to access the arts in whatever capacity that is relevant to them. 

A way of bringing these artistic techniques to people is to reach out to local art practitioners who are willing to share their expertise. This leads to our belief of also providing artists with ways of engaging with their communities – if they wish – and putting themselves on the spotlight so that their work is seen and valued”. 

ID: A creative workshop setting at a community centre. Two people are sat around a table in conversation, one is listening, one is talking in an animated way with their hands. There is an exhibition of photographs and textile artworks behind them. A grey panel sits at the bottom of the photo with Metal’s logo and the Open Advice info in white text.